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· Public charity

Hope Funds for Cancer Research

To encourage and finance research of innovative cancer treatment and detection for the most difficult-to-treat and understudied cancers.

$659k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.1MEducation$977kScience & Tech$441kPublic Safety & Disaster$64kArts & Culture$61k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $394,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $659,248 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $264,348 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $357k
$57,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Scripps HFCR-23-01-01$63,500
Yale University HFCR-24-03-03$60,500
Beth Israel Deaconess HFCR-24-03-02$60,500
Whitehead Institute HFCR- 25-04-03$57,500
UCSD HFCR-25-04-04$57,500
MSKCC HFCR-25-04-02$57,500
MIT HFCR 25-04-01$37,900
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Whitehead Institute HFCR- 25-04-03: $58k → 8%The Whitehead Institute 19-03-01: $54k → 12%Childrens Hospital Boston 18-03-03: $6k → 16%German Cancer Research Center: $19k → 11%Scripps HFCR-23-01-01: $64k → 11%Columbia University HFCR-22-03-02: $61k → 17%Whitehead Institute HFCR-24-03-01: $58k → 8%Dana-Farber HFCR-21-04-05: $64k → 16%Scripps HFCR-23-01-01: $61k → 11%Rockefeller University HFCR-21-04-01: $64k → 17%The Broad Institute 18-03-01: $56k → 8%Beth Israel Deaconess HFCR-24-03-02: $61k → 16%The Salk HFCR-20-03-02: $54k → 11%MSKCC HFCR-25-04-02: $58k → 17%The Whitehead Institute 18-03-02: $56k → 8%Beth Israel Deaconess HFCR-24-03-02: $58k → 16%The Salk Institute 20-30-02: $52k → 11%Rockefeller University HFCR-21-04-01: $54k → 17%The Whitehead Institute HFCR-21-04-05: $51k → 8%Dana-Farber HFCR-20-03-01: $56k → 16%Scripps Research HFCR-19-03-02: $15k → 11%MSKCC: $54k → 17%MIT 20-03-03: $52k → 8%Dana-Farber HFCR-20-03-01: $54k → 16%Univ Cal San Diego HFCR-21-04-02: $64k → 11%Rockefeller University 19-03-02: $54k → 17%MIT HFCR 25-04-01: $38k → 8%Dana-Farber HFCR-21-04-05: $54k → 16%UCSD HFCR-25-04-04: $58k → 11%Rockefeller University HFCR-21-04-01: $52k → 17%Dana-Farber 20-03-01: $52k → 16%Univ Cal San Diego HFCR-23-01-01: $58k → 11%Memorial Sloan Kettering HFCR-21-04-03: $52k → 17%UCSD HFCR-21-04-02: $54k → 11%Memorial Sloan Kettering 19-04-04: $19k → 17%Univ Calif San DIego HFCR-21-04-02: $52k → 11%NYUNY Genome Center HFCR-19-03-03: $56k → 17%NYUNY Genome Center 19-03-03: $54k → 17%NYUNY Genome Center 19-04-03: $19k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 10 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$2.0M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+76%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $278k · revenue +95%
  • WI
    WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
    4× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +207%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $222k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • YH
    Yale HFCR-22-03-04
    one grant, 2023 · $61k
  • TB
    The Broad Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +44%
  • GC
    German Cancer Research Center
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
7
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $277,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $275,199 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $181,250 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $127,750 · HealthNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INCBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $118,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75,000 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTEThe Broad Institute Inc: $55,500 · Health+1 more: $6,418 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $344,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRAN…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $283,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALI…Scripps HFCR-23-01-01: $63,500 · OtherScripps HFCR-23-01-01Yale HFCR-22-03-04: $60,500 · OtherYale HFCR-22-03-04+2 more: $37,500 · OtherYale University: $290,500 · EducationYale UniversityTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $222,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $89,400 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of T…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $60,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $105,000 · Science & Tech
Health$1,116,617Other$789,000Education$662,400Science & Tech$105,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYale University: $290,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $277,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $275,199 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $222,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $181,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $127,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $118,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $89,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $60,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $55,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $6,418 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hope Funds for Cancer Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hope Funds for Cancer Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Hope Funds for Cancer Research through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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